Sure, but the Mayan calendar stuff was a fucking joke. The only people who took that seriously were already batshit or the media. Everyone else treated it like a fun distraction. Same thing for Y2K.
Having lived through 2011, I just don’t recall that doomerism being culturally pervasive at all. A subset of people have been pining for the end times for millennia
Sure, but the Mayan calendar stuff was a fucking joke. The only people who took that seriously were already batshit or the media. Everyone else treated it like a fun distraction. Same thing for Y2K.
It was a joke, but the doomerism about that year was using that joke to say something real about 2011. That’s what I’m saying.
Having lived through 2011, I just don’t recall that doomerism being culturally pervasive at all. A subset of people have been pining for the end times for millennia